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Hi Chelsea, Good to hear that you are stable! I agree with
your diet tactics. However, with the water consumption and
'bouncing around' you have to be very careful! Excessive
water consumption will raise your blood pressure, and if
you start bouncing around a lot on top of that, it can drive
your BP past a critical limit and cause a stroke which happen-
ed with me a couple of weeks ago. Even though the tactic
will work, you don't want to do it on a regular basis like
I did.  . -Bob
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Hi Isabel, If you are getting the runs, i.e. D every time you
take the Zelnorm, then you are allergic to it. Check your
patient info.sheet, it's stated there. So you should stop the
Zelnorm immediately! If your doc balks at it, tell him to read
the patient info sheet. Since you are doing Heather's diet,
another thing to do is to try Miralax. Your Doc should know
that that's an acceptable alternative to Zelnorm. Also, if
you're not taking an SFS you might want to try that also.
Good luck! -Bob
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Didn't you say stopping yours helped you? 
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Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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HI Jen, Yes, exactly! I remember just a while ago some woman
posted and asked Heather to de-register her from the boards
because she had become totally stable and didn't care to be
on the boards anymore, and in evidence of that Cyndy tried
asking one last question and she did not respond. There are
unfortunately lots of people like that out there.Fortunately
for us, there are also lots of people who care and still hang
out because they believe it's the right thing to do  . -
Bob
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You're soo sweet!
I really appreciate all of you sticking around to help us "newbies and sicklies"!! I will try my hardest to stick around, too!! I believe that God blessed me with this condition so that I can help other people if I get better. And if I don't, well then I just made a ton of new IBS Friends to go through IBS attacks with and it's all worth it to me.
I was pretty lonely when I was stable, anyway. Now, I feel like I actually have friends and people to talk to even though all of you are "internet buddies". It doesn't matter....
Thank you for being here for me!! Love all of ya!! 
Michelle
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Unstable
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Oh my goodness!! Are you alright? How awful, I hope you are doing ok.
I didn't really mean vigorous bouncing or anything ... I just mean some sort of movement to get things moving. But wow, its good to know that information anyway. I would have never known that water raises your blood pressure. Yikes!
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Lets see .. I would say I've been at it since about May of this year. Like I said, I started over many times b/c I would start to get such awful gas and bloating, but eventually, I just said to myself "Ok, you are just going to have to deal with the gas/bloat for a little bit in order to get your IF in" So, i did just that. I continued introducing IF (Mixing peas in w/ pasta, making vegetable roasts, making smoothies w/ plenty of berries, eating oatmeal w/ berries, and eat salads with rice in them). My belly was the size of a balloon for about a full week and half and I was a walking fart machine, but I just dealt with it. After that initial week and half, I noticed them starting to subside. I had made it over the hump. After that, I was actually able to cut down on the IF and still remain stable. I do still get slightly bloated after meals ... that is a harder problem to fix ... even stable folks deal with bloat. And every now and then, if I've overdone it on the day's fiber, I'll have some gas. But all in all, I'm feeling much better and I go to the bathroom everyday.
I know it seems so discouraging, but you just have to keep trying with the goal in mind of figuring out what works for you. You will figure it out, I promise!
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Hi Beth, Yes, I haven't used it since my stroke, and it
certainly hasn't seemed to worsen my condition at all. It
could even be that it might help if I started it up again.
However, right now since I'm improving, I'm going to hold
off doing it. The primary reason is it just about requires
drowning yourself with water which could push up my BP to
high which is more important now. Also, just because I'm
not doing it doesn't mean I don't think other people should
not do it either, especially since it has proven for the
most part to be very effective. That advice was for Isabel
who may be helped by it. For her it's probably well worth
trying, if she hasn't already. -Bob
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It was a little cool yesterday and I drank lots of herbal tea. I used Stevia-Plus in every cup of tea.
This morning I had a wonderful poo (if you will...) and my tummy was nice and flat. No bloating or anything.
This is the third time that I can really say that Stevia-Plus is what keeps me going. I know that a few of you are concerned about the "Plus" which is an inulin fiber but it doesn't bother ME a bit.
I have posted this before so for those of you to whom this seems redundant forgive me but I was compelled to share this with the new folks.
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Have a blessed day!...Rachel
stable and sooooooo thankful!
I have IBS but it doesn't have me!
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